“Have you ever had love ripped from your heart, or the dream of happiness turned to a nightmare from which you cannot wake?” -Sunorose Ackart

A Golden Thread

A Golden Thread is a human odyssey of redemption, discovery, and revelation. From the beginning, the protagonist, Jonathan, is at rock bottom in his life. He is estranged from his wife and son because of a mistake, a moment of weakness that cost him everything he loves. He will do anything to reunite his family. As he struggles to cope with his shame and regret, an inexplicable phenomenon has him in its grip; he is slipping back in time to earlier parts of his life. Along with this experience, there are the vivid nightmares that bring him back to relive recent past lives. Just when it seems there is no way for this situation to get more extraordinary, Jonathan learns the phenomenon is connected to even bigger things than he could have ever imagined, and he, having no memory of a revealed prophecy, is in fact a key part of an epic struggle between two forces that in the end will determine the fate of humanity.

Several other fire trucks had arrived to fight what was now a three- alarm fire. Blossoms of orange flames gushed from all the windows on both observable sides of the structure. If it were daylight, a column of thick, black smoke would have been seen easily for ten miles, but under a starless night the black smoke was only visible as it belched from around the fire, and then was quickly swallowed by the hungry darkness.

Author Richard Norton

Richard Norton grew up in Portland, Maine. He has spent 28 years in social work providing supports to individuals with Intellectual Disabilities. Richard is an artist, musician, and writer. He currently lives in Windham with his wife and son.
“It is a mystery why things happened this way, but in our long journey under the sun, it has been revealed time and again that there are no coincidences.”-OM